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Jerry Lawson: The man who Pioneered the Video Game Cartridge.

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(December 1, 1940- April 9, 2011) Photo credits: The Estate of Jerry Lawson (Jerry Lawson) Before Xbox, PlayStation, or even Atari, you had to buy a...

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Wally Amos was the first black talent agent and entrepreneur who founded Famous Amos cookies.

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12 Facts about George Crum

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Before discussing 12 facts about George Crum or George "Speck," let us look at common legends about how some believe potato chips originated. Who...

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African-American Firsts

Jerry Lawson: The man who Pioneered the Video Game Cartridge.

Black Firsts tellersuntold - April 5, 2019

(December 1, 1940- April 9, 2011) Photo credits: The Estate of Jerry Lawson (Jerry Lawson) Before Xbox, PlayStation, or even Atari, you had to buy a...

Sylvia Robinson: The Mother of Hip Hop

Black Firsts tellersuntold - March 27, 2023

Introduction Hip-hop has become among the most well-known and significant musical genres worldwide, but it wasn't always that way. Hip-hop was largely an underground movement...

Wally Amos was the first black talent agent and entrepreneur who founded Famous Amos cookies.

Black Firsts tellersuntold - April 7, 2019

Who is Wally Amos? In 1967, he left the famous William Morris Agency in New York to move to Los Angeles to start his management...

Haben Girma – The Inspiring Story of the First Deaf-Blind Woman to Graduate from Harvard Law School

Black Firsts tellersuntold - March 2, 2023

A Black, Deaf-Blind woman who graduated from Harvard Law School created history. Haben Girma, a lawyer, activist, and public speaker born and raised in...

Muriel Tramis: The First Black Woman Video Game Designer

Black Firsts tellersuntold - March 23, 2023

Men controlled the video gaming industry in the 1980s. The first black woman to design a video game was Muriel Tramis, a French-Caribbean woman...

Jesse Owens: the Buckeye Bullet!